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Frankly, I like the extra hour of sleep.

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Griff, which model Longshot are you running? Boy, what a time and step-saver at the range! I have the "Marksman" model. it's showing as "unavailable", but Amazon is showing 7 in stock: Longshot Target Camera @ $29 less than I paid for mine. I clicked on all the various cameras a...

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And here I was thinking of the pain & suffering I endured at the dermatologist's as he burnt and cut cancer from my skin!

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I'm guessing your target camera is a good addition to your shooting bag! I can't recommend them highly enough. It has a feature that allows it to recognize a new hole in the target, even one overlapping another. It simply compares the current target to the previous image stored and, as it flashes b...

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My favorites are the crescent buttplates and forend caps. My Browning 1886 is the full length rifle.

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Spent another afternoon at the rifle club. Took 3 rifles, 2 Winchester 94s and the 1885 Hi-Wall. (I'd meant to take one of my 16" Trapper 94s, but... apparently, since it wasn't set out, I hadn't planned all that thoroughly)! I shot the Hi-Wall first to see if the new load changed my grouping o...

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SO true!

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:26 amMost steel shot is buffered these days and the wads are quite thick plastic BUT you would best to refer to the owners manual and or an email or phone call to the maker.
Questions like this type I would rather get the answer right from the horse's mouth.

+1!

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My first car was a heavily used Mustang Mach 1 that I bought for $600. :D That engine was incredible. Of course it sucked gas like there was no tomorrow, and I was trying to fill it during the oil embargo of the '70's making barely $2/hr. I swear the gas gauge fell if I even looked at the gas pedal...

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:07 pmIt's funny how some dogs almost want to drive and others shake with fear I knew a little dog that loved the car but one trip in a strange car with a nervous dog and he needed coaxing to even get him in the car afterwards.

Same with horses and trailers.

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Keep a watch on your health, you don't get many "do-overs" with it! Nice gift. I agree, you got a special Dad, keep him. I went to the VA to get a CT scan of my abdomen a week ago last Monday & was told they didn't have any unfilled orders from my Doctor. Called the VA Clinic and they ...

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We don't have natural gas down our street, ½ mile from the highway where they do... but, the expense to be the first to have it piped here is more costly than my property is worth! I rely on two Honda 5K generators. Or... I just sit and wait, light the propane or kerosene lanterns and read a book. S...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:53 pmOh, THAT Mach 1- I had to think about that Doc!
I think we are headed more towards the Stanley Steamer

Not if it's coal or wood fired... "too dangerous for the children."

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Not all have taken a deer, but all have accompanied me on hunts.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:31 pmLol I feel the same way.

Make me 3 of us!

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I have one rifle that chews up brass... It's my custom mdl 94 in .30-30 with a Numrich barrel. The chamber is quite simply, rough! I get about 3 loadings on brass used in it and the necks start showing cracks. Not the mouth, case body or shoulder, just the neck. I've not done a chamber cast, so I do...

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CHANGE THE OIL!! The only thing that might be an issue is the generator portion, lots of dissimilar metals( copper, aluminum, bearings) that sometimes corrosion can seize the genset. Another thing to think about are mouse nests inside the covers. I would contact the manufacturer and get info for in...

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Most of my loading these days is accomplished by pulling the crank on an old Dillon machine. It’s satisfying, but not anything like precision hand loading. Don't feel like The Lone Ranger, most of mine is also. There is also a certain satisfaction to fill up a GI can full of 45ACP or 45 Colt or eve...

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Growing up in the city it was quite a bit different. But, I attended a private elementary school... out in the farm land of then a largely agrarian Orange County in CA. School was surrounded on 3 sides by acres of strawberry and vegetable crops. Farms chores were part of the curriculum, a small part...

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I didn't drag myself out to the range today, even tho' the weather seems fine for it. I sized and trimmed another 50 cases and prepared to load them. A nearby toy store said they had 3 lbs of RE7 on the shelf, so knowing I only had what was in the powder measure left, I headed there. Alas... what he...

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OK .. thanks. I will dig out the chronograph and see. The 160 gr. Speer jacketed SWC with 7.5 gr. of Unique was about 1150 fps and the jacketed bullet produced a lot more friction than the cast bullet. Seating depth also affects things. That Speer JSWC is in the database, and at 7.5 grains is a muc...

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A light sanding and fresh Tru-Oil would do that furniture wonders. If'n I was a Marlin guy, I'd have bitten on that one also. For some reason, I thought the 36 introduced the round bolt to Marlin.

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8 grains of Unique is pretty sporty, any idea how fast that's running? No, I've never checked. I would guess around 1200 fps. But that's just a guess. Jim, you might wanna check... Quick Load doesn't list that specific bullet, but another 160 grainer SWC in the .357, is showing about 42K psi @ 1580...

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Thanks for the kind words. As I said, I started reloading the .30-30 in 1973, while still on active duty. Then in 1974, I became a student living on my VA benefits, luckily my wife worked and was supportive of my shooting hobby and hunting. My first deer was her and her family's first taste of venis...

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Vall, if you're like me, you'll love that 10-10 scale. I had their mid-range scale, I believe it was a 5-10-5(?), anyway it started giving erratic results and contacted RCBS about it. They said to send it back & they'd try rebuilding it. A couple weeks after sending it in, I received a new 10-10...

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I don't pay attention to the news, so this is the first I'm hearing (reading) of the shooting. I'm constantly dismayed at the waste of lives. Prayers up.

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Since I had my trimmer mounted to the bench, (have to take my powder stand down to do that), I decided that since I had less than 50 rounds of .30-30 in cast, I'd make up some. At least a box of 50... so I trimmed 50 cases (Winchester) down to 2.028" after sizing and deburred inside & outsi...

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east of Dallas we got a few sprinkles while I was at the range, not even enough to dampen the targets. Roads were wet on the way back, but our dirt road showed nary a drop and the little farm is dry as a bone. Need a little if I'm to mow at least once more before the grass goes dormant.

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My mailman is such a friendly chap, I don't often greet him heeled... well, not visibly anyway!

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D'OH! I don't know why I switched the two cartridges in my feeble mind. Maybe because they were such go-to stalwarts of the Schuetzen era. :oops: Probably my fault for mentioning the .38-55 in my post... I measure case length before reloading and trim, every time if necessary. You could run into se...

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Griff, I for one am enjoying your .38-55 adventure. I wish to heck I had kept the Marlin Cowboy in that caliber that I bought a whole swaging outfit from Dave Corbin to feed it custom .379 jacketed softpoints. Have mercy they were accurate! Actually, it's a .32-40. Back in the mid '80s I bought a b...

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Did ya notice that with old eyes, even a scope don’t help much anymore? 😝——006/ Surprisingly, this does seem to help. With iron sights, I find myself trying to line up a fuzzy rear sight with the bead of a fuzzy front sight and line both up on a fuzzy target! This scope has a long eye relief and my...

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Prayers for you and your wife Tycer. I haven't viewing all the posts as I used to and missed yours.

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Six, it's the "new-to-me" Miroku made Winchester 1885 Limited. https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/d197/sass93/DSCN1551_1_.JPG I know that I "could" use any of that family of cartridges to form brass from... but, if I have a quirk, it's liking to have my brass head-stamped in ...

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My once fired .32-40 brass stretched. Probably less than 50% of the 60 rounds I reloaded today. Lyman's 50th sez "trim-to" length is 2.120". Some of mine were as long as 2.23". Most were in the 2.15" range. I dropped my previous load of 15 grains of 5744 to 14 grains, as the...

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Cool score!

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I enjoyed both parts 1 & 2, along with the short companion film. Learned a lot about the folks and wide variety of them who worked and are working to bring them back. But, I worry about the fervor of environmentalists(?) that would displace humans at the benefit of animals. Or other humans based...

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Scattered among other informative articles, there are a few here: https://www.leverguns.com/articles/Default.htm

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In 1969 Geologists and physics both predicted CA would fall off into the Pacific. I hitchhiked my way to NO... co-incidently, just in time for Madri-Gras... I'm still waiting for the predicted fall of CA, (into the ocean, we know it's really fallen far)!

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After a couple of decades of using nothing but lubed, cast bullets, my 45 Colt seating die needed the accumulated hardened, sticky lube cleaned out of it...

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:39 pm

+1!

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I always wondered what it took to get assigned to her.

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"Weapons of war have no place on California's streets," Bonta said in a statement Thursday. I hate to break it to AG Bonta, but 'weapons of war" have been on America's streets since revolutionary times! (Yes, ang before). Plus, the AR-15 is not a "weapon of war."

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Yes. Maybe.

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I like it! Between it and the Longshot target camera system, your chronograph and spotting scope just became redundant!

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marlinman93 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:32 pmAnytime the wives can go along is a great time of shooting! Looks like fun Walt!

+1!

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I'm not particularly fond of bear meat... so I hope y'all forgive for taking a pass. I believe my 45-70 in the 1886 will get the job done... and with better sights, the Sharps 1874 in .40-90SBN will also, with the added advantage I can remain farther away!

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